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I'm old enough to remember when it was the astronauts and scientists who got credit for space exploration, not the parasitic CEOs who profit from their work.
Can you imagine if the press had given the majority of the credit for the moon landing to the brave, visionary CEO of Lockheed Martin or whoever, for bravely hiring people to build the spaceship parts, and bravely skimming ten percent of the top for himself?
That’s funny and relevant but I guess if scientists didn’t like it they could go work for NASA. Then they could follow regulations, take 10x the time it takes Elon and ultimately retire with the exact same credibility.
This tweet is so capitalist that it told me that I have the privilege of eating if I work 12 hours a day
the CEOs back then were called presidents and it was a public agency.
We choose to go to the Mars in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we can make some serious cash like you wouldn't believe.
Elon Musk is a scientist
Except a lot of the early/mid US space program was really the nuclear missile business and trying to impress the Russians with our ability to compete with them in blowing up the world. Even if there were some positive spinoffs from it, like Earth-observing satellites, and Tang.
@elonmusk doesn’t do it for the money, there are far easier and less risky ways to get rich than starting a rocket company and competing with nations.
He gets credit because it is his vision that is making it happen. Also he is principal engineer and contributes significantly.
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